Irritating Mugen Edamame and Puchi Puchi score Trendy Toy wins

Juniper Foo | Jul 01, 2008

Can anything be more repetitively annoying and annoyingly repetitive? Clearly not, since the Japan Toy Association, which held its first-ever awards recently, bequeathed the Trendy Toy trophy on both of Bandai's Mugen Edamame (read: Infinite soybean popping) and Puchi Puchi (read: Infinite bubble wrap popping) keychain games.

More bane than bean, these popping simulator gimmicks haven't helped my sanity, since directly behind me is our Japan-crazy editor who got himself a Puchi Puchi which he occasionally whips out to give some of us grief. Suffice to say that unlike the real McCoy, this produces electronic clacking sounds that just gets to you. Worse, in a Faust-like pact, the player is encouraged to keep up the relentless popping, the goal being to release secret sounds. Anyone ready to take a guess what Bandai will pop up with next?

Via Japan Probe

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